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Quotes About Globalism

Most American women, particularly white women, have not decolonized their thinking either in relation to the racism, sexism, and class elitism they hold towards less powerful groups of women in this society or the masses of women globally.
~ bell hooks
tradition is not well suited for globalization.
~ Suki Kim
I'm happiest with people who've gotten furthest from traditional ideas of nationalism.
~ William Gibson
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~ Stefan Zweig
People who were not American seemed deliberately to avoid efficiency or comfort.
~ Stella Benson
On the contrary. Internationalism also recognizes, by its very name, that nations do exist. It simply limits their scope more than one-sided nationalism does.
~ Christian Lous Lange
I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there's no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That's all crap.
~ Christopher Hitchens
As Herman Melville put it: "We are not so much a nation as a world.
~ Bill Bryson
Oppie told his audience that he was not going to argue with the president's motives and aims—but "we are 140 million people, and there are two billion people living on earth." However confident Americans might be that their views and ideas will prevail, the absolute "denial of the views and ideas of other people, cannot be the basis of any kind of agreement.
~ Kai Bird
Let us stop the continents from hurling epigrams at each other, and be sadder if not wiser by the mutual gain of half a hemisphere. We have developed along different lines, but there is no reason why one should not supplement the other. You
~ Kakuz? Okakura
Where are they, the American fiction writers whose works are interested in the question "What do these people have to do with us?" and "What are we doing out there in the world?
~ Kamila Shamsie
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos.
~ Peter Singer
Of course, isolationism will not keep America isolated.
~ Anne Applebaum
Isolationism is not leadership.
~ John Hickenlooper
I was born in France, but I would have been happy to have been born in Senegal or in Romania or Japan. I don't care. This planet is both so small and so big, but I'm part of it.
~ Manu Chao
We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us..... The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations.
~ Francis John McConnell
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches, nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of nations far away. We have learned that we must live as men, and not as ostriches nor as dogs in the manger. We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
all men, just of different cultures, wearing different uniforms, having different-coloured skins perhaps, but simply men nevertheless
~ Brenda Davies
You cannot spill a drop of American blood without spilling the blood of the whole world.... We are not a nation, so much as a world.
~ Herman Melville
The people who illegally cross into the country are from countries that have very close ties to al Qaeda, whether it's Yemen or Afghanistan, Pakistan, China. It is an absolute national disgrace.
~ Rick Perry
I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.
~ P. J. Harvey
When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.
~ Clement Attlee
If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it.
~ Stephen Colbert